OFFENSIVE WORDS

Words like TO and CASE are considered offensive by me (and maybe others) and having them in the Forth kernel of ciforth would be sores. It is easy to implement them as loadable extension. This would however be objectionable if loading extensions was as difficult to track down and use as in most Forth's.
In ciforth it is sufficiently easy, if you use the -a option: 
WANT TO 
WANT CASE
See the screens of my Forth implementation
To examine 
WANT TO LOCATE
LOCATE TO
It is even easier using autoload 
WANT AUTOLOAD
AUTOLOAD
Every word that is available as a loadable extension will be loaded automatically.

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